guffaw
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You can never quite relax, because you're always just waiting for the raise of the eyebrow, the suppressed guffaw, the uninvited joke, whatever.
From BBC β Apr. 18, 2026
It’s typical of the home-state reporting corps to guffaw when their own governor is touted as a presidential candidate.
From Los Angeles Times β Dec. 14, 2025
But even now, the news will occasionally let you get off a chuckle or guffaw, even if it isn’t always from your better nature.
From Slate β Oct. 10, 2025
I will note, though, that her inexplicable full-on sprint mid-confessional at the end of the episode makes me guffaw.
From Salon β May 26, 2023
Señora Oralia let out another hearty guffaw and shook her head as if she couldn’t believe what she was telling us.
From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. PΓ©rez
And while much of the movie induces sidesplitting guffaws, Tremaine said that producer and co-creator Spike Jonze was eager to highlight the sensitive beats shared between the cast.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jun. 29, 2026
They realized that these comments got a rise out of the girls and drew guffaws from the other boys; Amanda saw them looking around the classroom for reactions after saying something particularly shocking.
From Slate β Dec. 5, 2025
"Someone wrote their number on a tissue the other day and I was like, 'Oh no, you're just not my type'," she guffaws.
From BBC β Sep. 29, 2025
He yells, plots, spills coffee, turns dad jokes into gut-punch guffaws, and makes the entire auditorium fold itself into a ball, shaking with laughter as much as they shake with anxiety.
From Salon β May 12, 2025
“You have leg pain?” he said, between guffaws.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
It is no exaggeration to say I guffawed my way through it.
From Salon β Dec. 26, 2023
At various points, others groaned and guffawed at Mr Gaetz's comments.
From BBC β Oct. 3, 2023
Even those who experienced tribulations far worse than mine, cheered and guffawed with bottles of Champagne in hand, dressed in their most outrageous, albeit crusty, Burning Man finery.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 10, 2023
“Vote for Bolsonaro?” guffawed Sabrina Campos Dionísio, 22.
From Washington Post β Feb. 6, 2022
Taisin began to giggle, and then they were both bent over double, clutching the twigs and branches to their chests as they guffawed, their voices ringing in the twilight Wood.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
We’ve reached a point where the guffawing has to stop.
From Salon β Feb. 9, 2024
From beneath his silver helmet, Martin was guffawing.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 24, 2022
About an hour later, however, I was guffawing so hard at Anderson’s everyday observations, endearing familial impressions and lithe, in-the-moment wit, that he started heckling me for being too enamored with the show.
From Washington Post β Jan. 21, 2022
I was just saying, how nature was amazing and then, unfortunately, the audience started guffawing.
From Slate β Apr. 25, 2021
She moved so fast it was as though she had Disapparated; one moment she was there, the next, she had squeezed between two guffawing witches and vanished.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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